Lilish was born few years before her ship was put to sea during the
Ohtainn exile. Considered as a gift by her kind, she received a lot of attention and was able to learn from her elders about several subjects. unfortunately, the particular point of view of the banished make her only knew the
Elrim as the one who banished her family and prevented them from using magic. Hardworking and joyful, and quite empathetic, she aimed to lighten the mood around her.
During a short passage in a wild and deep forest, untouched by civilisation, she heard a mesmerizing sound. Doing a small investigation, she encountered a bird that sang so well it bring a soothing joy in the deepest part of her heart. When she returned to her nomad family, she started humming the bird's song.
Her mother cheered her for her music and encouraged her to follow this path. She advised her to put lyrics in her creations. The little elve, quite unsure about it, started to train her voice and follow her mother advice.
Two years after hearing the bird, she sang her first song, "
Iledr ya maloth " (Across the forest in Sundavar). The song was designed to be performed while walking and, given Lilish's young age, it was quite simple. But after few performance where Lilish sang alone, everyone in her group followed her.
When the group reached the sea and the small harbor with their ship lash up in the bay, Lilish fell deeply in love with that vast lake that her elders call "The Sea". She was that moved by the sunlight reflecting everywhere near the shore that she sat in the sand and instantly wrote a song: "Aea-yuzill" (My dearest water). She sang it to her group but that song, although emotionally strong, wasn't as entertaining as the previous one. She was deeply disappointed by herself. Her mother, knowing her very well, hugged her and explained that her previous song has some rythm, while this one could be compared as figurative poetry: If she wanted to be praised by everyone she haven't to make her songs hard to understand, but rather simple. She further explained that peoples like being capable of singing a song, again and again, especially during the dire moment that was this exile.
Lilish was lost. She could't grasp how to complete such an achievement. That thought haunted her when she was boarding her ship. She stood on the same spot for three day and three night. On the fourth day, while fetching some food for her breakfast, she heard a young ohtainn singing alone. The song was about a ship that sailed and went around the elrim empire, with a short story for each harbor it stopped. She thought that the song was quite lame, until two others young ohtainn accompanied him with their voices during the chorus. Ultimately, she found the song funny enough and quite entertaining. She started to listen to them from time to time.
That's with that discovery Lilish composed her next song: "Ahî! yn ya ſèt" (Raw until the shore). After a harsh tempest that almost set their ship off track, she started to sing it. Every single person started to follow her. Thrilled about her new found type of musique, she started working on severals other compositions like "Seilla agrar mè ya aealoſ" (I will miss the sea), [Idla aya aealo im] (Fishes knows best) and "Rihy seilla sè vò u a ry tèhh me" (When i'll set foot in this new world).
After few weeks, her group joined the other groups of exiled to the other shore, Near a human kingdom. Lilish wrote a few songs before mysteriously disappearing. One ohtain sweared that she saw her talking to a Fae in a mushroom circle, into the forest. After numerous research across few years, her parents finally conceded that she might have died when the same ohtainn that affirmed she saw her was judged clinicaly mad.
Interesting character. I wonder is there some form of magic to her singing as you mentioned that their family was normally forbidden from praticing it?